MDSO: Deputy shot assault rifle-toting teen in Homestead while investigating armed carjacking

Officials are inspecting a deputy-involved shooting in Homestead that sent a teenage boy to the hospital According to Homestead Police the violent chain of events started with an armed carjacking involving three armed subjects in the area of Southwest th Street and th Avenue in Southwest Miami-Dade Monday night The subjects all of them teens drove to a neighborhood near Southeast th Avenue and th Drive in Homestead about eight miles from where the carjacking took place and ditched the automobile Investigators reported deputies from the Miami-Dade Sheriff s Office South District Crime Suppression Organization and Special Enforcement Group located the stolen wagon moments later and a foot pursuit ensued Surveillance video captured considerable shouting At one point a deputy is heard telling the three teens to drop their guns MDSO investigators revealed one of the deputies was forced to discharge their weapon just before p m striking one of the teens who was armed with an assault rifle in the arm Area resident Virginia Trejo recalled hearing the gunfire There was a bunch of like sirens like all around the perimeter of the houses and then I hear like no and then I see like all the cops running around just like in a panic she noted The two other subjects were taken into custody Paramedics transported the injured teen to Jackson South Physiological Center where he is listed in stable condition As of a m on Tuesday detectives have yet to release the identities of the subjects involved or specify what charges they could be facing The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is studying this deputy-involved shooting